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Title: FIT O' THE TOON

Reference number: 5730

Date: 1978, late summer

Director: [filmed by Enrico Cocozza]

Sound: sound

Original format: super 8mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 110.00 minsc

Description: The course of a day in the life of the 'fit o' the toon' area in Wishaw through the eyes of Enrico Cocozza. His first film after a break of 18 years, it contains interviews by Cocozza and vox pops from a variety of local people about their lives, jobs, plans for the day, health, holidays, weather etc as we chronologically move through the day. Varied musical accompaniment to different scenes adds a slight comedic element.

Condition note:- Transfer to tape is poorish with rather muffled sound. The original 8mm is preserved by National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive.

Credits: d. Enrico Cocozza
technical assistants: Gavin Brown, Paul Lennox, Trevor Kirkness
m. 'freely borrowed from various modern composers'
[participants Margaret Robertson, Ian Rennie, Trevor Kirkness, Jessie Cruickshanks, Scott Lennox, Drew Blachan (?), Joe Bryce, Janet Bryce, Alice Stewart, Lizzie Grey, Christina MacIntyre Fulton Gibb, Jim Murphy, Tess Murphy, Veronica Murphy, Martin Murphy, Jacqueline Murphy, Mark Murphy, Jessie Muir, Margaret Wardlaw, Jimmy Morrison, John Strachan, Michael Murphy, Jessie Russell, Peter Stewart, David Stewart, Jack Higgins, Sandy Duncan, John Clegg, Jim Dithom (?), Jean Russell, Janet Ross, Margaret Agnew, Paul Reid, Jack Brown, Jim Weir, Bill Kerr, Robin Gillespie, Jackie Davis, Findlay Barr, Jim Boyd, Owen Dougan, Bobby Gallacher, Gus Miller, Robert Peat, Jerry Dunn, Peter Stevenson, Ronnie Stevenson, Bruce Fleming, Jerry McGowan, Jimmy Dunn...... Alec Mather. Margaret Duddie, courtesy of Carluke Operatic Society]

Shotlist: no credits, photo of Enrico Cocozza's mother (0.55) Int. EC's flat, fictional interview by local journalist about his reasons for making this film - his first in 18 years - and discussion of some film techniques (9.01) early morning in 'fit o' the toon' in Wishaw, gvs traffic, Main Street, people in street, local shops. Intercut with interviews by EC and vox pops from a variety of local people about their lives, jobs, plans for the day, health, holidays, weather etc as we chronologically move through the day (97.20) brief view int. EC's flat, journalist then leaves his flat. Wishaw sky at night (110.00)